The quirky comedy French Exit, about several disconnected, somewhat lonely American souls who come together in unique ways in Paris, is funny, sad, bittersweet, surreal and altogether different. For star Michelle Pfeiffer, who has won some of the best reviews of her career after the New York Film Festival premiere, it…
Oscar and Emmy nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) will portray Betty Ford in The First Lady (working title, fka First Ladies), Showtime’s anthology, executive produced by Viola Davis who stars as Michelle Obama. Emmy and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce the…
Michelle Pfeiffer has played an array of iconic characters—from a heartbroken Madame de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons to the beehived, conniving antics of Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray—but none of her previous work forewarned us of the wonderfully aloof eccentricity she displays as newly-impoverished socialite widow…
The New York Film Festival wrapped tonight, and its closing-night film, French Exit, is a winner that firmly places Michelle Pfeiffer, a three-time past nominee, back in the heart of the Best Actress Oscar race. She tops an aces cast that is sublime in every way in an absurdist comedy that is surreal, dark, witty…
French Exit, which stars Michelle Pfieffer and Lucas Hedges and has Tracy Letts voicing a cat named Small Frank, will have its world premiere as the closing night entry in this fall’s New York Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center hasn’t set final details for the 58th annual edition of the festival, which runs…
Angelina Jolie and her cheekbones steal the day in Disney’s inevitable sequel to its 2014 monster hit, Maleficent.
This one basically picks up where the first one left off. You might recall that Maleficent (Jolie), the evil, winged sorceress who acts as faerie godmother to Aurora (Elle Fanning), aka Sleeping Beauty…
Oscar nominees Annette Bening and Michelle Pfeiffer are boarding director Gideon Raff's thriller Turn of Mind, a feature adaptation of the Alice LaPlante New York Times bestseller.
Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright is adapting the psychological thriller, which centers on a retired orthopedic doctor (Bening) suffering…
Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts will headlineFrench Exit, a surrealist comedy that Azazel Jacobs is directing. The pic, which will be presented at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, is based on the international bestselling book of the same name by Patrick deWitt, who also adapted the screenplay…
Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and director Peyton Reed are back for Marvel’s sequel to the 2015 small smash Ant-Man, and this time they have added The Wasp. It’sappropriate in the year of the #MeToo movement because the Wasp is the first female character featured in a Marvel title to make it to the movies.
With…
Reprising some familiar stories but filling in plenty of fond nuance, the lead actors and director of Scarface marked the film's 35th anniversary with a crowd-pleasing Q&A session Thursday night at the Tribeca Film Festival.
After a screening of the 1983 film, director Brian De Palma joined Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer…
Perhaps it says something about a movie featuring the likes of Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Michelle Pfeiffer and others that I came out of it talking about the cinematography and production design. In my case, the reason might have something to do with the fact that having seen and remembered Sidney…
